William Graham Sumner Quotes

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

William Graham Sumner

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• My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.

  

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• It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

  

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• The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

  

  Wade Boggs
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• When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

  

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• Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

  

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• Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.

  

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• I don't let anything kill my spirit.

  

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  Victoria Wood
  • Like
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• Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

  

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• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

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• Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
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• When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

  

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• A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.

  

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• I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

  

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• Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new Treasurys, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer, and the hyper-inflation cat will be completely out of the bag.

  

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• I wouldn't mind being taller, because when I'm in the company of people who are absurdly tall, there's something about them that I can't help admiring.

  

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• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

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  • Stop
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• I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Home
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• Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

  

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• Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Firsts
  • Land
  • Foundation